Agni jingoism

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/04/2012

The best analysis of the glory reporting the TV channels did of the Agni missile testing and its distance from sober reality, was by Manoj Joshi in Mail Today on April 20. A fitting counter to the breathless and jingoistic 'China rattled!' panel discussions on Times Now and Headlines Today, it made the pertinent point that all the glowing assessments of the achievement had come from DRDO itself.

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